 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 504 pages
...nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to all men. That which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts, even one thing befalleth them; as... | |
 | Caleb Pitt - Christianity - 1824 - 868 pages
...bread always to c 2 the wise, nor yet riches always to men of understanding, nor yet favour always to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that... | |
 | William Hendry STOWELL - Ten commandments - 1825 - 236 pages
...nor the battle tp the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Failures, therefore, cannot always be eluded by the most skilful and laborious application to the pursuits... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all,". Ecc. ix. II. As all human affairs are liable to accidents and disasters, a firm persuasion, and serious... | |
 | James Jones (minister.) - 1828 - 228 pages
...Scriptures, that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Eccles. ix. 11. Yet they were convinced, by their own observations on the world, that human events... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 412 pages
...to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all.' calamities which threaten you. I will now explain the other : — the land is also your enemy : your... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." There are those who have met with losses which no talent could have prevented. Every time they havo... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...the strong ; neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all" — (9:11). So he thinks. He knows no better. He sees no farther. And can you wonder, that he should... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - Theology - 1832 - 522 pages
...therefore so contrary to human calculation, the declaration verified — that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet favour...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all ?" In those conflicts where the fate of nations is decided by the sword, we see the same truth exemplified.... | |
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I returned, and saw under the sun; that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 
